Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is another man’s Poison
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Tom Beard, in reply to
having my mind completely blown by Underworld's incredible mmm skyscraper i love you:
Oh yes, so much yes! Being a typography nerd at the time, I also bought the book of the same name name. It's incredible how they often seem to get the same effects in both music and type: repetitive, distorted, overlapping words, drifting in and out of comprehensibility, shifting from meaning to rhythm to texture and back again. A perfect postmodern evocation of media-saturated urban alienation and elation.
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More at the Meat Puppets end than the Poison end. I've been enjoying the Bruce Russell-compiled Time to Go -- the Southern Psychedelic Moment: 1981-86, on Flying Nun. The least obvious F Nun compilation in years -- perhaps ever. Bruce's theme is about a psychedelic movement in South Island post-punk music, and it stands up.
Among the 20 tracks, possibly the Tall Dwarfs' saddest and prettiest:
Scorched Earth Policy's Since the Accident: easily one of the most unwholesome-sounding songs ever recorded in NZ:
The Pin Group's Jim:
I can't figure out why I never really liked this group at the time (Look Blue Go Purple):
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Simon Grigg, in reply to
I see your Underworld and raise you one Leftfield:
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Good god, is this some kind of record for number of pages?? Wonderful reading…
And, dear old Heart. They were awesome musicians, really stuck it up those who said “rock is for men”, but dear lord, how tedious I found their stuff.
Heart played my cousin’s high school graduation. By all accounts they could rock a high school party.
At my school Nick Gilder (Sweeney Todd) played sock hops and dances many times before he became too pricey for high school dance budgets.
Sweeney Todd
Hot Child in the CityNick Gilder was later replaced by Bryan Adams,.
Warning: This photo is of Bryan Adams aged 15 with a Mullet Perm, when he replaced Nick Gilder in Sweeney Todd
http://www.planethelix.com/Photo/1970/photos/photo62.htmlAnd these guys – unknown here in NZ I think, but a big deal back then in Canada – played our grad dance.
April Wine
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A great talking record:
A great cover of a great talking record:
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SteveH, in reply to
Have we had the 'You have twins? We have twins too' discussion? Seems there's a few of us around here.
One more set here, as of 6 weeks ago...
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For Danielle:
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Back to the talkies? Check out the drummer. It's like he got lost on the way to a Duran Duran gig.
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JacksonP, in reply to
One more set here, as of 6 weeks ago...
Congrats, and all the best. Busy times.
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I worked in printing / litho shops for many years. The ever-blaring commercial radio was as much of a health hazard as the chemicals, solvents and badly-ventilated darkrooms. I have retained a loathing for classic rock that rocks, no repeat workdays, and the hits of the 70s 80s and 90s. It's enough to send you postal.
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hayden ward, in reply to
not to mention that special time of the year... ROCTOBER
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Hebe, in reply to
One more set here, as of 6 weeks ago...
Congratulations. You are doubly blessed; and they are so much more fun than a single.
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dyan campbell, in reply to
I have retained a loathing for classic rock that rocks, no repeat workdays, and the hits of the 70s 80s and 90s. It’s enough to send you postal.
Jonathan I sympathise. I didn’t even like them when they were current and hadn’t yet been turned into a kind of aural torture that never, ever stops.
This list should be the antidote – this tv show Soundproof was possibly the funniest tv ever made – completely by amateurs – and was the inspiration for the movie Wayne’s World, an iunbelievably popular for a cable access tv show.
If you watch it, keep your eyes peeled for some very famous faces, including kd Lang driving an imaginary car and Margaret Atwood, just cracking up.
Soundproof provided a very popular vehicle for “alternative” music, which eventually became the featured spot on the mainstream CBC tv shows.
The bands are folks I know back home – these are some of their songs from the 80s and 90s – they were definitely not making classic rock.
Soundproof – Alternative Music Videos in the 80s
Suburban Cave Man – Bob’s Your Uncle (Sook Yin Lee)
54:40 I Go Blind
Sons of Freedom – The Criminal
Sons of Freedom
DreamgirlNoMeansNo Small Parts Isolated and Destroyed
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And, dear old Heart. They were awesome musicians, really stuck it up those who said “rock is for men”, but dear lord, how tedious I found their stuff
I found their stuff mostly clever - liked how they could turn the beat on a song around - have their first five Albums.
The cover of "Little Queen" was dreamy, though I never did return either of their numerous phone calls, not wanting to cause bad blood between sisters - But I digress as one does in dreams.
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The horror of the Spoken Word - Desiderata for the terminally self-absorbed:
"Do not trust anyone who tries to update Shakespeare for kids":
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Are you all feeling calm and relaxed? If not, try this….
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3410,
The horror of the Spoken Word
This one has a special place in Hell; partly because it's such a cheap gimmick, partly because it's such a travesty, and partly because he comes across as such a prick.
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Thelma Houston's version is the best by a funky mile. Bass-icly.
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This is an improvement on Queen:
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Spoken word classic. Reader, I bought it.
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Hebe,
I have a hate-love-hate for this song
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Well done Lilith__
I have bookmarked that cracker!
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The tinkly nostalgic acoustic music used in all those hand-held beautiful people ads trying to look like the Tree of Life shot on 5Ds that are all the rage these days.
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Rubbed out: rubbish.
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